Dress-shield.



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.CHARLES N. WAITE, or WILMINGTON, DELAWARE DRESS'- Speccatonef Letters Patent.

SHIELD.

rate'iited nac. 24, 19.07..

\ Appiicaioii nei Nimmt@A 2o.,1906. siriana. 344.217.

To all whomit may concern:

Be it lknown that I, CHARLES N. WAITE,

of Wilmington and. State of Delaware, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dress-Shields, whereof the following is a specification, reference being' had to the accompanying drawings. l'

The object of my invention is to provide a water-proof dress shield which shall beof such a character as to be practically invisible when worn beneath a garment of semi-transparent fabric, such as French nainsook, batiste, or other exceedingly line material.

in the accompanying drawings Figure I represents a dress shield of preferred form,

made in accordance with my invention, al-

though, of eoursc, it will be understood that other forms and' sizesV are comprehended thereby. Fig. il. represents, lupon aneularged scale, apiece of the composite fabric of which the shield is made, and Fig. lll indicates, upon a still more exaggerated scale, a cross section of said fabric.

To construct the fabric from which the' shield is made, Al talie'a piece of text-ile fabric having a relatively open mesh, and composed of relatively line threads, such for instance as tarlatan, or fine bobbinet, preferably white in color, and l apply thereto a very thin coin tinuous lilin of cellulose esteriii solution, and combined with asoftening agent adapted to render it permanently pliable, the solvent and the softening agent employed being such that the applied [ihn shall be substantially transparent and preferably colorless.

l prefer to employ one ofthe forms of dinitrocellulosedissolved in ether and ."ohol, and to add thereto castor oil-as a softening material, but obviously any of the other wellhnown solvents or softening materials may bc' employed, provided the resulting film be of the character stated. .'l he cellulose compound may be applied in any convenient manner, but l )referto pass the. fabric th rough a bathof the c issolved cellulose and to scrape olf the excess adhering .thereto as it emerges 'I thus obtain, after evaporation of the volatile solvents," a cpntinuou's,

vwater-proof, pliable and practically traiils parent fabric, which, by reason of the.sup

porting medium incorporated therein, willv not easily tear or fray, Y

Referring to the drawings, the shield shown in Fig. l c'onsists of two crescentshapedpieces 1', and, 2, secured together at l their concave edges by means of a ve' binding ASaip 3, which should be gemeen:

to the strip, I prefer to ap ly along theregion of the seam a thin so ution ofthe softened cellulose, or I may merely meisten the 1n either case the cellulose will iiow suflily.water-proof While retaining itsv liability.

The general shown in FigslI and III, where 5, indicates of thel fabric, as a whole, the incorporated medium reduces the liability of the cellulose to tear, and the cellulose tends to prevent the medium from fraying, `so that the presence of a binding around the edges is not' necessary.

- Any desired fastening device can ofcourse i heapplied tothe shield, and the article thus made can be satisfactorily Worn beneath the dress shield would be conspicuous by reason of the relative transparency of the garment itself. i

I have referredl to tarlatan and bobbinet as respectively indicating typical woven and mediums; but, I, of course, do not restrict my claims to any specific fabric, norte one having any particular color, rit being only essential that the incorporated textile fabric portto the film, but shouldnot be of suchclose texture as to be opaque, or be com osed conspicuous.

spicuous as possible. If the pieces are sewed ciently to close theopenings made by thev needle and will render the joint substantially haracter of t e fabric is l the layer or film of cellulose, and 4,-,the-- threads of the incorporated textile support..` It will be noted that owing to the character lightest garment, where an ordinaryopaque film at the region with the original solvent.

netted fabrics which are proper supporting i slould he sueh iis-.to afford a substantial supof threads sov coarse as to be indivi .ually For convenience of description I 'term theV I available fabrics, open mesh inefabric's, as indicating the desired characteristics of the supporting inedium.- I employ the term transparent in order to appropriately indicate 'the' desired i characteristic lof .my improved drjcss shield, but it must, of course, be understood that this expression is relative, `Ameaning that the iilm is'one which can-be readily seen through, and that the incorporated medium .is substantially inconspicuous un( ler theI conditionsl of use.

. .l do notclaimbroadly the use of a cellulosecoinpou'nd asthe niaterialfor a dress shield nor do I claim broadly the application` of e piece of fabric to a layer of such material. The essence of my invention lies in the fact that both the layer itself and the fabric also shall be practically transparent under i 5 the conditions of use, and in the further fact l that the fabric shall be substantially incorposigned my name, at PhiladelphiaLPennsylrated in the film, as distinguished from being i Vania, this 17th day of November,` 1906. merely adherent to the exterior thereof. CHARLES N. WATE.

shield, composed of a film of substantially transparent, softened cellulose ester, provided with an incorporated and -inclosed supporting core of open mesh fine fabric.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto Having thus described my invention,A I lVitnesses: 10 clmxn1- WlLLIAM E. SLACK,

As a new article of manufacture, a dress- JAMES H. BELL. 

